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Denver Courts Part Of DOJ Plan To Expedite Immigration Proceedings
Immigration court backlogs have swelled, from 190,000 to almost 800,000 in 2018 — among those asylum claims jumped to almost 150,000 in 2017.
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Public Defenders File En Masse Requests To Get Mentally Ill People Out of Jail
State officials technically have just 28 days to get those in jail a competency restoration, but many wait much, much longer.
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Seminary Abuse Victim Still Waits For Denver’s Archdiocese To ‘Do The Right Thing’
Szutenbach’s faith actually survived the abuse and he still practiced after he left seminary. But it hasn’t survived the way he has been treated since he came forward.
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Birthright Citizenship: GOP, Dem AG Candidates Vow To Challenge Trump Threats
Here’s what Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
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In Waning Days On The Campaign Trail, AG Candidates Duke It Out Over Outside Ads
Democratic candidate Phil Weiser is calling an ad inaccurate. The ad mischaracterizes his work on an appeals case involving a man convicted of pedophilia.
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Two Sheriffs With Two Different ICE Policies Say They Want Clarity From A Higher Court
The ACLU sued El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder and Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell.
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Bob Troyer, State’s Outgoing Federal Prosecutor, Says Cricket Farming’s Next
During his tenure, Troyer was most known for attempting to balance a state constitutional law that legalized recreational marijuana with the fact the drug is still illegal under federal law.
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Delta County Sheriff Sounds Alarm On Mentally Ill Man In Jail, One Of Many In Colorado
Sheriff Fred McKee said his deputies are not qualified to care for a 66-year-old man who has been in jail for weeks with no word on when a hospital bed will open up.
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AG Candidates Agree That The Justice System Needs Work, Just Not Why It Does
One attorney general candidate thinks there are too many people in jails and prisons — the other wants to focus on sentencing reform.
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How Activist Would AG Candidates Brauchler And Weiser Be? Depends On Who’s President
Republican George Brauchler and Democrat Phil Weiser debated on their relationship to the federal government and the biggest issues in Colorado.
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Colorado Faces A Crisis With The Mentally Ill In Jail. Here’s How We Got There
The two sides, Disability Law Colorado and state officials, head to federal court Friday to fight it out again.
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Colorado Increasingly In Contempt As More Judges Recognize That Jail Isn’t A Mental Health Answer
When a judge threatens contempt, state officials have a limited period of time to move someone from jail to a hospital bed or treatment center.
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ACLU: More Police, Tougher Prosecutions Drive Colorado’s Prison Population Boom
A new report finds the number of felony cases filed by prosecutors has jumped 50 percent in just five years, and the state could soon be spending a billion dollars a year on prisons.
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Denver PD Is Using Data To Discover If Officers Carry Implicit Biases With Them Into The Field
Officers will record the demographic information, including gender and race, of every person they stop, as well as the length of the stop.
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ACLU Sues Teller County Sheriff For Holding Inmates Past Sentences At ICE’s Request
Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell defended the practice in front of a state judge Wednesday.
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Retiring Public Defender Wants State Officials To Focus On Mental Illness, Drug Reform
Megan Ring replaced Doug Wilson as the State Public Defender on Aug. 1.